Discover how you can turn your K-12 website from a 20 page non-informative website, into a 900 page “living” website – that YOU don’t have to maintain.

... Plus learn how you can give your teachers what they want --   their own websites.

Dear Friend,

How would you like to have the ability to update your website yourself without having to rely on your webmaster? How would you like for all of the principals in your school district to do the same? What if I told you that you don't have to be a rocket scientist or a web geek to know how to update your own website?

You can do all of this and much, much more with a content management system.

Content management systems allow you to:

• Update your website instantly! With a content management system, you can log in via the web and manage your website and update news and information without having to call up your technology coordinator. As long as you have Internet access and a browser, you can manage every page in your school district's website yourself.
• Create a Team of Webmasters and Delegate the management of the school district's websites. If you don't want to update the website and you don't want that to fall on one person's shoulders, then assign it to other administrators, staff, or even teachers to help.
• Organize the information you need to share with your staff and parents easily. Sometimes information is stored in the wrong place. With a content management system, you can easily organize content and move it around to where it should be.

Have you been TRICKED into thinking
"this can't work for MY school district?"

Obviously there are literally hundreds of benefits of having a content management system solution implemented in your school district. Despite this, only a TINY fraction of school districts ever bother to implement content management solutions for their school district.

Two big myths are holding back school districts nation-wide from having effective websites.

Myth #1:    Setting up and maintaining a website is HARD!

(Maybe you've been talking somebody who doesn't have experience in creating websites... Or maybe you're talking with somebody who maintains the website and this isn't their primary job.)

Myth #2:    Setting up a content management system is EXPENSIVE!

(You may have looked around already at some of the more popular school district content management system out there only to discover that they charge hundreds of thousands of dollars -- just to get started.

... Most of the content management solutions we've seen make it sound like creating websites is rocket science!

Yes... implementing a school district website with a content management system solution can be hard if you choose the WRONG solution. Because these companies want you to spend thousands of extra dollars on their software!

And yes... implementing a school district website with a content management system solution can be expensive if you choose the WRONG solution... we've done the math and seen programs that would cost over $100,000 for a decent size school district!

BUT it doesn't need to be this way!

Back in 2003, we started working with a school district that wanted to implement a content management solution so their teachers could all have websites. They wanted it to be easy and they wanted each teacher to ONLY have access to their own web pages.

We started by doing a little research to see if the open-sourced (free) content management systems could do this and were amazed to find that we couldn't find a single one that could. Our next step was to figure out if we could take one and customize it so it could. Two months of trying to change the code and literally sifting through the thousands of lines of code, we gave up!

So instead, we custom built a solution from the ground-up specifically for school districts that we called "SmartISD". That school district started with around 20 pages and 3 people updating their website, to now having around 250 people manage around 900+ pages. Their site literally EXPLODED with the amount of information it was providing!

After we were finished with that district's website, we then sat down to figure out how we could improve SmartISD and then started adding functionality and making it even easier to use. So, we worked on SmartISD for the next several years until we decided it was ready to release for the public in February 2007.

SmartISD has hundreds of features we've built in that help save you time, energy and most of all - frustration. We made it easy enough to use that EVERYBODY in your school district can use it and contribute to your school district website and each school website. In fact ANYONE can manage their website by following these 4 super-easy steps:

Step #1: Log into your SmartISD enabled website.

Step #2: Browse to the page you want to update or create a new page.

Step #3: Update the content on that page or upload images or documents using a easy to use WYSIWYG editor that resembles Microsoft Word.

Step #4: Click on the button that says "Save"

... and that's it!

All it takes is a few people helping out with your school district website for you to see immediate results in the quality and amount of information on your website.

And because SmartISD is a "hosted solution" that is hosted on our servers, you don't have to worry about buying additional hardware or "down-time". We handle all of the technical stuff for you and your staff!

Expert support ALWAYS available!

Even though SmartISD is by far the easiest content management solution available, we know you and your teachers and staff will have questions. And that's why we're committed to providing an outstanding level of help and support to everyone who chooses SmartISD for their school district.

We provide you with:

• A fully searchable archive of comprehensive online help.
• A comprehensive help guide.
• Streaming video tutorials.
• Submit a support ticket.
• Live help via the phone.

As you can see we are committed to making sure that everyone who uses SmartISD gets the absolute most out of it!

So if you're ready to get serious about making your website a really useful tool for all of the teachers, administrators, staff, student and parents in your school district, here are two ways to getting started:

1. Call us at 866-260-0875  and talk directly to me.

or

2. Email me directly at chris.hunter@smartisd.com

... And we will schedule a time for us to come to your school district for a free onsite demonstration of SmartISD and show you how you can empower your teachers and staff to take your school district website to a whole new level.

Sincerely,

Chris Hunter
VP Sales and Operations/Co-Owner
SmartISD